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Do remember the one about Pop rocks and cola? As it went if you put a bunch of proper action your math and chased it down with some soda, it would explode. Thats one of my all-time favorites. Or what about the one about Bubble Yum bubble gum? Whenever you put it into a piece of Bubble Yum it had a bit of a crunch to it. That was due to the fact that it was loaded with sugar. But as one of the best of the best myths, the story had it at the con actually contained spiders eggs and thats where the crunching came from. I love that one. As Munich freelance writer Klaus Manhart reiterates in his article, Likely Story, in Scientific American Mind, humans need myths. The brain needs a story he writes, and the brain needs, once the story is told, to be able to explain the unexplainable, [as Manhart notes Joseph Campbell discovered] to follow through on its imperative to impose order on the world. Maybe hes right in his theory about why we need myths, we are also called to our accountability when it comes to potentially damaging myths. I guess that makes us feel smart when we figure them out. Enter the inquisitive and curious John Stossel, 20/20s challenging reporter, to deconstruct the media-driven myths of 2005. As reported by LBN (Late Breaking News), John Stossel took it upon himself to de-mystify his version of the best of the best of myths--numbers one through ten as follows: Number 10: Americans have less free time than we used to. Number 9. Money buys happiness. Number 8: Republicans shrink government. Number 7: The world is getting too crowded. Number 6. Chemicals are killing us. Number 5: Guns are bad. Number 4: Were drowning in garbage. Number 3: Were destroying our forests. Number 2: Getting cold will give you a cold. Number 1: Life is getting worse. Now granted, minds such as those belonging to Manhart, Stossel, really have an overriding drive to have their world makes sense to them, to have and to find an explanation for the apparently unexplainable. But do we really need to figure everything out, in faith, in nihilistic determination and malcontented spite? Theres nothing wrong with a little mystery and our lives is there? |
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